Isoparametric hypersurfaces with four principal curvatures

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2004-02-17

arxiv.org/abs/math/0402272v1

Mathematics

Differential Geometry

79 pages, no figures, improved version of a pre-existing preprint with the same title

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Let $M$ be an isoparametric hypersurface in the sphere $S^n$ with four distinct principal curvatures. M\"{u}nzner showed that the four principal curvatures can have at most two distinct multiplicities $m_1, m_2$, and Stolz showed that the pair $(m_1,m_2)$ must either be $(2,2)$, $(4,5)$, or be equal to the multiplicities of an isoparametric hypersurface of FKM-type, constructed by Ferus, Karcher and M\"{u}nzner from orthogonal representations of Clifford algebras. In this paper, we prove that if the multiplicities satisfy $m_2 \geq 3m_1 - 1$, then the isoparametric hypersurface $M$ must be of FKM-type. Together with known results of Takagi for the case $m_1 = 1$, and Ozeki and Takeuchi for $m_1 = 2$, this handles all possible pairs of multiplicities except for 10 cases, for which the classification problem remains open. The paper improves the result of a pre-existing preprint with the same title, in which 14 cases remained open.

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